In summer 1969, 300,000 people filled Harlem's Mount Morris Park over six weekends for the Harlem Cultural Festival, a free event showcasing Black music and culture. "It crossed our minds from time to ...
The 1960s soul group The 5th Dimension remains beloved to this day. In fact, the group was recently featured in the Oscar-winning documentary, The Summer of Soul, directed by The Roots’ legendary ...
At first, Florence LaRue didn’t want to be in the famous R&B group from the ‘60s and ’70s, The 5th Dimension—a band that was also recently reintroduced to audiences thanks to the recent documentary, ...
The Fifth Dimension today (clockwise from bottom): Florence LaRue, Floyd Smith, Leonard Tucker, Sidney Jacobs, and Patrice Morris Credit: Photo by Darren Stone From ramshackle horse and buggy wagons ...
Florence LaRue was one of the singers in the pop, R&B and soul group The 5th Dimension but she’s also a musician, acted in television and the theater and has now come out with a new book titled “Grace ...
There are many reasons to revel in Summer of Soul, the acclaimed music doc premiering on Hulu this weekend. Across six days in 1969, tens of thousands of people streamed into a park in Harlem to see ...
In summer 1969, 300,000 people filled Harlem's Mount Morris Park over six weekends for the Harlem Cultural Festival, a free event showcasing Black music and culture. Those who played the event never ...